Shirt



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L. LEMOS.

SHIRT. No. 325,253. Patented Sept. 1, 1885.

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UNiFn STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEON LEMOS, OF SAI\ FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SHIRT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 325,253, datedSeptember 1, 1885.

(No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEON Lmros, a citizen of the United States, residingat San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirts, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are, first, to provide an improved meanswhereby the neck of the wearer is protected from the stud or button atthe back portion of the neckband, and the button-hole fortified; second,to provide a means by which to fortify and strengthen the neck-band atthat portion of the front of the shirt to which the collar is connected.I accomplish these objects by the means illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 is a view showing a shirt having myimprovement applied thereto. Figs. 2, 3, 4, and 5 are detail views.

Similar letters of reference are used to indicate like parts throughoutthe several views.

A represents the neckband of a shirt, which is made of suiiicient lengthso that one end is folded or doubled over and stitched to the body ofthe band to form a loop or pocket, B, and this pocket is closed uponthree sides, the upper edge beingleft open, as shown. \Vithin theoutside face of this pocket is made a button-hole, G, for a stud, bywhich the neckband is fastened to the neck of the wearer, which isaccomplished by bringing the opposite end of the neckband 0 around uponthe outside of the loop and buttoning the stud into the buttonholeformed in the said opposite end of the neck band. By this means the baseof the stud is against the inner face of the loop or pocket, and thebutt-onhead or top portion of the stud is upon the outside of theneck-band or loop, and the button-hole is re enforced and protected frombeing torn away by the strength imparted to the loop in the mannershown.

In constructing the front portion of the neck-band a pocket, D, isformed at a suitable point, and within each of the folds is made abutton-hole, E, as shown by the vertical section of said folds in Fig.2, so that if one button-hole should become impaired or torn out theother one will still serve to retain the button or stud.

In case it be desired to use onlyone of these button-holes, the frontone may be used, in which case the base or back of the stud will restagainst the inner face of the back fold of the pocket and protect theneck of the wearer in the same manner as that of the back portion of theneck-band above described.

In my former patent, No. 249,062, dated November 1, 1881, I show astud-pocket at the rear formed by attaching a rectangular piece of clothbeneath the button-hole on that end of the necleband that comes next tothe back of the wearers neck; and a similar pocket was formed at thefront of the neck-band by attaching to its outside a tab having a singlebutton-hole. By my Patent No. 802, 852, dated July 29, 1884, I form therear studpocket by providing one end of the neck-band with a tonguehaving an enlarged end or head that engages a supplemental button-hole,and I reenforce the buttonhole at the front of the band by providing theband with a tab, attached only at one edge and having a buttonhole, saidtab being folded down so that the shank of the stud would pass at alltimes through the button-hole in the tab, and also through that in theband. My present form of stud-pockets for front and rear are different,however, from all those above referred to. In my present invention thefront stud-pocket, Fig. 2, is provided with a button-hole, E E, in eachface, and the stud is engaged with the outer button-hole only,exceptwhen said outer button hole becomes torn or unduly stretched, andthen the stud will be engaged with the inner button-hole. This is notpossible with the construction shown in my former patent-s, nor with anyother neck-band of which I am aware. My construction of rear studpocketis also obviously different from those shown in former patents in thatit is formed from an extended end of the neck-band folded back andstitched on three sides of the main body of the band.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent,

A shirt having in the front of its banda stud-pocket closed at thebottom and at each of its ends, and provided with a button-hole in eachface in line with and directly opposite each other, substantially as andfor the purpose described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal.

Witnesses: LEON LEMOS. [L. s.]

\VILMER BRADFORD, CHAS. E. KELLY.

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